Amending the comment I made in the later post—
“Castro grooming Oswald as “the presumed assassin” was first promoted by CIA propagandists in Miami 11/24/63.”
Should read: “Castro & Oswald as presumed assassins was first PAID for and promoted by CIA propagandist in Miami 11/23/1963.”
The original propaganda pieces were created within HOURS of Kennedy’s death since they began distributing flyers in Miami churches and running radio ads on November 23, 1963. Wicked Fast work for a bunch of ex-pats, many who spoke little or broken English.
******Who paid for the first JFK conspiracy theory? by Jeff Morley Aug 22, 2014*****
The answer: certain employees of the U.S. government’s Central Intelligence Agency, otherwise known as the CIA.
Within hours of JFK’s death on November 22, 1963, members of the Cuban Student Directorate, a CIA-funded organization based in Miami, linked suspected assassin Lee Oswald to Cuban president Fidel Castro. They were “the presumed assassins.” The allegation was published in a special edition of the group’s publication, Trinchera (Trenches) dated November 23, 1963.
This was the first JFK conspiracy theory to reach public print. According to declassified records, it was paid for by a decorated undercover CIA officer, the late George Joannides.
The leaders of the Directorate, also known by its Spanish acronym DRE, received $51,000 a month from the CIA, according to this April 1963 memo found in the JFK Library in Boston.
Within the CIA, the Directorate was known by the code name AMSPELL. The group was “conceived, created and funded by the Agency in September 1960 and terminated in December 1966,” according to a CIA memo, dated April 1967.
“Members were used through 1966 as political action agents for publishing propaganda … and producing radio propaganda and special propaganda campaigns,” the CIA memo states.
Joannides served as chief of psychological warfare operations in the CIA’s Miami station. He also handled contacts with the DRE, according to his July 31, 1963, job evaluation. In return for CIA support, the group engaged in “intelligence collection, political action and propaganda.”
The DRE’s post-assassination scoop publication emphasized the pro-Castro remarks that Oswald had made during debate on a New Orleans radio program with DRE delegate Carlos Bringuier three months before. Oswald had been exposed as a communist — and now he had killed the president.
He and Castro, the group declared, were “the presumed assassins.” The DRE used its international network to publicize the charge throughout Latin America, according to this document found in the DRE Papers at the University of Miami library.
What Joannides thought of the DRE’s use of CIA funds to publicize its view of Oswald is unknown. The CIA recently admitted for the first time that Joannides maintained a residence in New Orleans as part of his assignment in 1962-64.
The publication was handed out to worshippers arriving at a Catholic Church on Key Biscayne on the morning of November 24, 1963. A FBI agent in the crowd took a copy and filed it at the office.
Thus the first JFK conspiracy theory was published within 48 hours of Kennedy’s murder, and the CIA had paid for it.
http://jfkfacts.org/who-paid-for-the-first-jfk-conspiracy-theory/
Actually, you’re wrong about that. It’s not the first JFK conspiracy theory. If anything, the KGB’s disinformation campaign was the first JFK conspiracy theory. Don’t believe me? Read this:
https://pjmedia.com/mihaipacepa/2013/11/20/the-new-proof-of-the-kgbs-hand-in-jfks-assassination/
In fact, I’ll even direct you to the exact passage where Pacepa confirms such was the case:
“According to new KGB documents, which became available after Programmed to Kill was published, the Soviet effort to deflect attention away from the KGB regarding the Kennedy assassination began on November 23, 1963—the very day after Kennedy was killed—and it was introduced by a memo to the Kremlin signed by KGB chairman Vladimir Semichastny. He asked the Kremlin immediately to publish an article in a “progressive paper in one of the Western countries …exposing the attempt by reactionary circles in the USA to remove the responsibility for the murder of Kennedy from the real criminals, [i.e.,] the racists and ultra-right elements guilty of the spread and growth of violence and terror in the United States.””
That memo, from what he said, was released a full 24 hours AFTER the JFK murder at the latest, predating even the DRE group’s memo you cited.